Hope George - The Great Gatsby

I read the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book is being read by a narrator named Nick Carraway, who moves right outside of  New York City to become closer to family. The family he moves closer to is his cousin, Daisy. The last time Nick saw Daisy was when she was married to her husband Tom, after they were married Daisy and Tom moved away. Daisy and Tom moved all over the world and came back to New York to raise their daughter.

Nick moved across the shore from Daisy in a wealthy community. But, his house was very small compared to all the others around him. As a matter of fact, Nick’s little house was near the biggest house in the entire neighborhood. Nick looked around curious of the man who lived there, and saw a shadow of a person who seemed to be watching him at all times.

Shortly after the time that Nick moved to New York he went to Daisy’s home to give her a visit and enjoy a nice afternoon. While he was there, Nick found out that Daisy was not happy in her relationship with Tom and that he had another woman on the side he would go visit in the city. Also, while Nick was visiting Daisy she had a friend named Jordan there as well. Nick thought that Jordan was a very nice looking woman and was attracted to her immediately. Jordan had mentioned a man named Gatsby who lived across the bay next to Nick. Nick was curious and asked Jordan how she knew him. Jordan explained that Gatsby had large parties every weekend, the whole city would come into that man’s very large house.

Nick eventually met up with Gatsby and they became friends and went out to lunch, and spent some time together. But, Nick had felt very suspicious about some of the things that Gatsby had to say about himself. Gatsby had met up with Jordan and asked her to talk to Nick about Gatsby meeting up with Daisy some time. When Jordan and Nick got together, she explained to him that Daisy and Gatsby had met once before, before he went into the war and they were a very close couple and planned to spend the rest of their lives together. The reason Gatsby wanted Jordan to meet with Nick was because Gatsby wanted to meet up with Daisy at Nick’s house someday.

Later that week, Nick went to pay Daisy a visit to talk to her about coming over for tea one day to have some tea. Little did she know she was going to be meeting up with Gatsby. She agreed to come over without Tom for a couple hours.

The rest is for you to find out! I really enjoyed reading this book, quite a few people said it would be boring, but its very interesting and keeps you on the edge of your seat.